Published November, 2010
By Zhengyin Yan, Gary Caldwell and Gary W. Caldwell
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology
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Lead optimization in drug discovery, a process attempting to uncover and correct these defects of drug candidates, is highly beneficial in lowering the cost and time to develop therapeutic drugs by reducing drug candidate failures in development.

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Published November, 2010
By Stavros Konstantinides, S.Z. Goldhaber and Stavros V. Konstantinides
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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This practical volume highlights traditional, novel, and evolving aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE). Important aspects of diagnosis, risk stratification, and differential treatment of patients with PE are presented in a concise, yet comprehensive manner.

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Published November, 2010
By Gene S. Fisch and Jonathan Flint
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
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In this up-to-date survey and critical assessment of transgenic and knockout models in neuropsychiatry and behavior, a panel of leading researchers comprehensively assesses how and whether the genetic abnormalities produced from these models manifest the neuropsychiatric disorders to which they correspond.

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Published November, 2010
By James C. Fang and Gregory S. Couper
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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Couper, MD, have assembled a panel of prominent surgeons and cardiologists to review the latest clinical, scientific, and investigational surgical and mechanical approaches to heart failure in hopes of improving the lives of this challenging group of patients.

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Published November, 2010
By George A. Bray and Barbara C. Hansen
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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This book covers the most important clinical and bench science aspects of metabolic syndrome. It will be of value to all of those seeking a comprehensive update on the metabolic syndrome. Furthermore, it will provide a broad basis for advancing research in the multiple intersecting disciplines encompassed by the metabolic syndrome.

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Published November, 2010
By Pedro Cortes
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Diabetes
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A comprehensive and authoritative survey of recent findings, ideas, and hypotheses about the causes and treatment of diabetic nephropathy.

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Published November, 2010
By Zhizhong Z. Pan
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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Opioid research is one of the multidisciplinary research areas that involve advanced techniques ranging from molecular genetics to neuropharmacology, and from behavioral neuroscience to clinical medicine.

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Published November, 2010
By Greet van den Berghe
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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Until recently, endocrinology and critical care medicine were two specialties in medicine that were rather uncomfortable with each other and hence quite i- lated.

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Published November, 2010
By Chris E. Forsmark
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
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Diseases of the pancreas have been extremely difficult to study. The ch- ters have been organized to provide a comprehensive discussion of acute and chronic pancreatitis, with up-to-date discussions of pat- physiology, epidemiology, diagnostic strategies, treatment, and c- plications of disease.

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Published November, 2010
By Ted Wilson, Norman J. Temple and Ted (Lecturer in Biology) Wilson
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Nutrition and Health
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Availability: Available

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